During his interview with Crypto Insider's Vlad Costea, Bitcoin Maximalist Giacomo Zucco gives ratings to the top 20 cryptocurrencies in terms of market capitalization, as of October 23rd 2018.
Read more on Crypto Insider: https://cryptoinsider.com/giacomo-zucco-top-20-cryptocurrencies/

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TRADE-OFFS IN THE HISTORY OF MONEY, FROM SHELLS TO BITCOIN (BUT ESPECIALLY IN BITCOIN)
This presentation will be an attempt at representing organically and at a high level the history of monetary technologies (with particular focus on the most recent one, Bitcoin) from the perspective of the different trade-offs involved in any step of their evolution. The speaker will try to give an organic account of classical as well as less discussed trade-offs, like the ones existing between transaction costs and divisibility (gold vs silver), between verification costs and independence from third parties (coinage practice), between privacy and local security (binding vs hiding in cryptocurrencies), between privacy and scalability (obfuscation techniques in cryptocurrencies), between scalability and independence from third parties (Bitcoin “scaling debate”), and so on.

Giacomo Zucco, bitcoin evangelist and director at BHB Network, answers to our questions during the 1st single-track conference of Codemotion dedicated to the Blockchain technology (that took place on June 14 in Milan).
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Giacomo is a very respected member of the Bitcoin community, but I know him as a super funny guy that’s really fun to be around in a conference. He has me in stitches every time we hang out, reminding me that in fact, the Italians are the best and I wish I was over there now having pasta and a laugh. Seems like the crypto community in Italy, while somewhat small, is also lively. In this interview, I learn a bit about Giacomo’s background along with his views on maximalism, economics, and more. It was a good conversation at a great conference (congrats to Tone Vays and his team at Unconfiscatable).
About the Guests:
Giacomo Zucco has a background as a Theoretical Physicist, he is a former Technology Consultant for Accenture since 2009 and a serial entrepreneur in the Bitcoin scene since 2013. In 2015 he funded the Milan-based research/development/incubation/consulting firm BlockchainLab (now moved to Switzerland), and is supporting the creation of a world-class competence center in the field. He now sponsors non-profit open source initiative in Bitcoin with the initiatives BHB Network and TheB.
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Theoretical Physicist, former Technology Consultant for Accenture spa, serial entrepreneur in the field of emerging technologies. Economic blogger and contributor to several Italian newspapers. Involved in several projects in Bitcoin and blockchain space since 2012, he is now CEO of BHB Network, a research/development/incubation/consulting firm and a world-class competence center in the field.
TALK: BITCOIN: POLITICAL ATTACK VECTORS AND COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS
The blockchain technology was not brought about to improve past technologies, instead, its roots are exclusively political. The idea behind its development, started by the internet cypherpunks and then continued by Satoshi Nakamoto, is the creation of a monetary tool able to defy government censorship and to protect user’s privacy. In this speech, Giacomo Zucco will dispel myths about improbable uses of the blockchain, especially in the financial/banking world, and he will outline the true challenges behind Bitcoin. Part of those challenges are also political in nature: In the last months, we have seen interesting developments with the proposals of various contentious and not technically-motivated hard-forks, one of which was enacted (Bitcoin Cash). Those splits can be seen as a new kind of political attack vector against the decentralised and censorship-resistant nature of Bitcoin. To understand the absence of true technical motives behind those kind of consensus changes you have to understand the fundamental difference between the necessity of a dynamic, versatile and competitive system, following the Schumpeter’s definition of “Creative destruction”, able to disrupt and replace the current financial and monetary system, and the absolute importance of a resilient immutable base protocol. Protocols like the TCP/IP are very difficult to upgrade because they are base level network architectures, Bitcoin more-so needs to be static to withstand every kind of attack: strong foundations to build on. On the other hand, some changes are still deemed to be necessary and desirable before the eventual crystallisation of the protocol: one example is Segwit that was finally activated at the end of August 2017.
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Bryan Anthony of Radio Hussar got to chat with Giacomo Zucco about the use of Bitcoin and the state of free speech. We met after an exciting Kraków Bitcoin Meetup held at Kawiarnia Literacka. This is the first part of the interview.
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During his Crypto Insider Interview, Giacomo Zucco takes his time to define the term "Bitcoin Maximalist", as he is among the very few cryptocurrency community members who embrace this otherwise derogatory and stigmatized label.
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“Ethereum itself is not an experiment in something new , because they tried to implement any bad idea that was already discussed with Bitcoin in 2013.”— Giacomo Zucco
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Interview date: Tuesday 16th October 2018
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Giacomo Zucco is a proud Bitcoin Maximalist, and his presentation on the subject at the Honey Badger conference in Riga led to mixed reactions. Some called out the stupidity of Bitcoin Maximalism specifically concerning his slide: The Four Universal Truths of Bitcoin Maximalism:
1. Everything which is not Bitcoin is a scam!
2. Every attempt at changing Bitcoin is a scam!
3. Every attempt at pushing people to spend Bitcoin is a scam!
4. We shouldn’t be nice to scammers!
While the slide was part tongue in cheek, and I suspect point 3 was trolling Bitcoin Cash supporters, many took this as a strict doctrine of Bitcoin Maximalism and attacked Giacomo for it. Bitcoin Cash is indeed under threat, the Bitmain IPO has identified how much Bitmain accepting and buying BCH is supporting the price, and outside of Bitcoin, very few projects have managed to demonstrate use case or adoption.
Even with Bitcoin, there are no coiners who attack the entire crypto space, chief amongst the naysayers is Nouriel Roubini, who last week declared war on crypto with his testimony to Congress. The disappointing thing about Nouriel’s presentation was that he made many good points, but became lost amongst exaggerations and falsities.
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I interviewed Giacomo Zucco, Director of The B. Foundation, and asked him the most difficult questions and concerns I'd heard, about this new non-profit Bitcoin foundation.
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Giacomo is a #Bitcoin maximalist with years in the industry. Him and Alena Vranova of Trezor fame recently launched a mixed nonprofit 'non-official' Bitcoin Foundation called The B Foundation. The effort aims to support what they argue are important and underdeveloped areas of Bitcoin.
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